Claims that hospitals are not under pressure from surging numbers of people suffering badly with coronavirus are a lie , the chief executive of NHS England has said.
Speaking at a Downing Street briefing, Sir Simon Stevens said false claims on social media could change behaviour in a way that would cause more deaths.
In his condemnation of those who allege the
COVID crisis in hospitals is a hoax , Sir Simon said: You are not only responsible for potentially changing behaviour that will kill people. Image: A nurse works on an intensive care patient at St George s Hospital in Tooting, south west London
Heartbroken NHS nurses forced to choose between Covid patients dying at dramatic speed
Experts have predicted London hospitals are just two weeks away from being overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. One nurse has now said staff have to choose who gets treated
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Shocking footage from an intensive care unit has revealed the extent of the coronavirus crisis and the strain it is piling on the NHS.
Emotional doctors and nurses were seen struggling at London s University College Hospital while caring for the growing amount of coronavirus patients.
Operating theatres and some paediatric rooms have even been converted into intensive care units to deal with the ever-growing number of patients.
The harrowing footage comes on the same day Britain breached 1,000 Covid-related deaths since the virus s peak in April.
Department of Health figures revealed that a whopping 1,041 people have died as a result of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
At least 211 frontline health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus.
Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11.
This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients.
The figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died, as the names of some victims will not yet be in the public domain.